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DETROIT, MICH. (Michigan Radio) - A federal judge in Grand Rapids will hear arguments tomorrow in a suit challenging the firing of a medical marijuana patient. Joseph Cassias was fired from a Walmart in Battle Creek a year ago after he tested positive for marijuana. Dan Korobkin is an attorney for the ACLU who's representing Cassias. He says employers from across the country are watching the case.

The state's medical marijuana law is "inartfully drafted" according to Appellate Court Judge Peter O'Connell. O'Connell was quoted in a Detroit News article saying the law is so confusing that users "who proceed without due caution" could "lose both their property and their liberty."

An Oakland County Judge prohibited defendants charged with violating drug laws from smoking marijuana while on bond until their hearing in October. The defendants say they use medical marijuana legally under the state's medical marijuana law. The Detroit News has a story about the ruling. In it they described the scene outside the courtroom: